THE BLUE-WINGED WARBLER. 



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vine bark, etc., lined witli fine grass. Eggs, 4 or 5, white, faintly and thinly 

 speckled with cinnamon-brown or umber. Av. size, .63 x .51 (16. x 13.). 



General Range. — Eastern United States from southern New York, southern 

 New England and southern Minnesota southward, west to Texas and Nebraska. 

 In winter south to Guatemala and Nicaragua. 



Range in Ohio. — Of general distribution in summer throughout the state. 



ALTHO appearing in our latitudes as early as May first, the Blue- 

 winged Yellow Warbler seems to bring summer with it. This is partly be- 

 cause its bright plumage suggests the fullest measure of sunshine, but more 

 because its drowsy, droning song better befits the midsummer hush than it 

 does the strife of tongues wdiich marks the May migrations. Sz^'C-c-c-:^c-c-c- 

 e-e- the bird says, and it is as if the Cicada had spoken. The last syllable 

 especially has a vibrant clicking quality like the beating of insect wings. 



Like most warblers this bird makes nice discriminations in the choice 

 of its summer home. If one knows exactly what sort of cover to look for 

 it is not difficult 

 to locate a Blue- 

 wing, but one 

 might ransack 

 a township at 

 haphazard and 

 find never a 

 one. L o w, 

 moist clearings 

 which have 

 been allowed to 

 fill up again 

 with s p i c e- 

 bush, witch-ha- 

 zel, and sap- 

 lings are favor- 

 ite places, es- 

 pecially if here 

 andthere a larg- 

 er tree has 

 been spared, 

 from which the 

 singing War- 

 bler may ob- 

 tain at will a Taken near Obcrliii. Photo bji Lynds Jones. 



commanding nest .-wd eggs of blue-winged warbler. 



